-related health. After the fall of the Wall, East Germans permanently changed their diet by consuming novel western food products. A … weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food … availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how novel food products alter the optimal consumption bundle and welfare …

malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky health behaviors. It describes traditional economic approaches … increase social welfare. The chapter summarizes the literature on the consequences of risky health behaviors for economic …

In this paper we argue that, for a given overall level of labour income taxation, a more progressive tax schedule … on a panel of 21 OECD countries over 1998-2008. Controlling for the burden of taxation at the average wage, our estimates … are confirmed when we account for the potential endogeneity of both average taxation and progressivity. Overall, our …

This paper identifies health determinants in urban China applying Grossman model. Using wave of China Health and … Nutrition Survey in 2000, we find that education has important positive effect on health, and cost of health care services has … important determinant of health. The body weight is also important, but unlike finding in developed countries, under …

Obesity has become a major health issue. Research in economics has provided important insights as to how technological … progress reduced the relative price of food and contributed to the increase in obesity. However, the increased availability of … food might well have overstrained will power and led to suboptimal consumption decisions relative to people’s own standards …